Sample-card.



B. F. STENZ.

sums oAn.- l APPLICATION P1 LED 0016' 1012.

1,047,849, Patnd Deo. 17,1912.

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W/TNfE-YES INVNTOR ATTORNEYS U TED STATES'. PATENT OFFICE.

BERNARD F. STENZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ABBIGNOR T0 SIMPLEX LITHOGBAPH COMIANY, 0F NEW YORK, N. .Y., A OORPQMTION 0F NEW YORK.

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Patented Dec. 17, 1912.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, Heimann F. S'rENz, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, boron h of Manhatten, in the county and Sta'e of New York, have invented a new and Improved Sample-Card, of which the following is a 'fullclean and exact description.

e present invention relates to sample cards for displayingsamples of textile fab rice.

It is now customary in displaying textile fabrics to cut upmaterial into pieces and attach them to a card, or mount and this practice entails a large ex nse, not only for the material which is ou up into sam les, but also for the labor incident to the cu ing of the material and the attaching of the sainples to the cards, and it is with the obect of producing a sample card which shal acourately display samples of textile fabrics without the necessity of employin samples actually cut from the ods hat t e present invention was produ M invention consists of the sample card whc will now be described and claimed.

A. sample card embodying m invention is shown in the accompanying rawing, in which l Figure 1 shows a front view of one formv of such card; and Fig. 2 shows a vertical section taken on line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

Similarreference characters will be used throughout the specification and drawing to deifnate corres ndin parte.

y im reve sam e card comprises a body po on 1, whi obviously may beef any suitable shape and dimension, and is constructed of an suitable material. .but preferably of card rd of sufficient thicknem and stiffness to maintain its shape in handling, and yet sutiiciently thin to receive the embossed impressions as will be hereinafter described. pon one face, the body rtion 1' carries a raised panel Q forme in the body portion 1 by an embossing process, and said panel upon its face re resents accurately the pattern and weave o the textile fabric wliic it is intended to represent as shown at 8. The panel il ma be of any shape in outline, but will ord nsrily be rectangular in sha and referably obloxg as shown, an itwil have sharply d ned marginal edges 4 such as as a pattern, and such dies duplicate accuratelvrtho atterri and weave of the fabric which it is intended to display, and are used to emboss the bod portion 1, to form the panels 2 in the or inary manner of emboss ing. The panel 2 is in effect a re lica of the of ods which formed tie pattemdor theis. Any desired number of panels Q ma be formed in the body portion correspon ing in number to the number of sampleswhch it is desired to display, and theymay" be arranged on the body portion 1 in any desired manner. In the drawing, I have shown four such anels illustratin and displayin .four di erent samples o textile materia As it may be desired to enable the observer to determine, the structural characteristics of the fabric displayed by the panels, the sample card wil preferably be rovided with a sample of the actual material itself, as shown a which sample may be of any suitable size or shape in outline and will be secured to the body portion 1 of the sample card along one of its edges by a suitable adhesive as shown at 6, leaving the main portion detached so that it may be lifted and subjected to the desired examination to determino its uality. All other samples, howover, will accurately displayed by the panels Sl which, as before stated, consist of an embossed surface which reproduces in all rticulars the characteristic weave and pat ern of the fabric which it is intended t0 re resent.

t is of course, to be understood that samples o colored material muy be displa ed embossed panels by printing the co ors w ich ap ar ip the fabric to be displayed. This mo ification of the invention, is of great importance in that it permits the color and pattern of -tiie fabric sam le to he cxA actly reproduced, as well as tio characteristie weave and bod of the fabric.

By my improve( sani le card, I almost entirely do away with t e practice of cut ting up textile materials and attaching them ing a body portion:

to cards which has for so long been the oom-` mon practice forproducin sample eardsof this nature and at a grea saying both.o`f time'and materials l t Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: l f l l 1. Asam ecad or ayin sampes in the similitude 'of textilamgibricsigconipris` ing a body portion and an embossed panel struck up from said body portion having a surface forming a replica of a sample of textile materia 2. A sample card for displaying samples in the similitude of text-ile abrics, comprising a body portion and an embossed panel. struck up from sai body portion having a surface formin a re lica of a sample of textile materia and s arply defined edges raised above the body rtion a distance substantially equaling t e Vthickness of a sample of textile material.

.3. A sample card for d laying samples in the similitude of textile abrice comprisand an embossed panel struck up from sai body portion forming a replica of a sample of textile material, and

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a sam le of textile material attached to said samp e card.

47A sample card for die laying samples in the similitude of textile abrics, comprising a body ortion, and a plurality of embossed pane s struck up t erefrom repre sentinghreplicas of samples of textile material 'Hering in pattern from each other, and arranged symmetrically with relation to each other.

5. .A sam le card for dis la ing asample in thesimi itude of text' e abric liavin struck u thereon a re lica of a sample o the texti emarial to displayed.

6. A sam le card for displa ng a sample in the similitude of a textile fa ric, said card having a surface corresponding to the characteristic weave of the pattem'of the fabric, and being colored in correspondence with the color and desi ofthe fabric. l

In testimony w ereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BERNARD F. STENZ. Witnesses:

T. Han'r ANDERSON, Pmmr D. RoLLnAUs.

Genies e! this patent may be obtained for ive cents each, by 'addressing the Commissioner ot Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

